In Africa, pregnant women and young children are the most vulnerable to malaria.
However, malaria control interventions and strategies have achivied important results in the last years.
COVID-19 has now made these interventions critical, and could undo the results obtained so far, as highlighted by scientists in the Lancet: https://bit.ly/2Tfyxwn.
Potentially, COVID-19 could indirectly cause more deaths than it already does directly, in the context of Africa’s weak and fragile health systems.
The European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) is a public-public partnership between countries in Europe and sub-Saharan Africa, supported by the European Union, which since 2003 has been
Exemplary coordination of African researchers and scientists involved in the response to the pandemic to study treatments that prevent serious complications of COVID-19 https://bit.ly/37SvaCz
An international research team has begun patient enrollment in a clinical trial testing multiple investigational Ebola therapies in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The randomized, controlled trial is